Check-controlled apparatus.



PATENTED APR. 30, 1907.

E. A. BEAUMONT, JR. & G. W. GARMON. CHECK CONTROLLED APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 14, 1905'. RENEWED AUG. 16, 1906.

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CHECK CONTROLLED APPARATUS. APPLIOATION FILED JUNE14.1905. RENEWED AUG.16,19OG.

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CHECK CONTROLLED APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 14.1905. RENEWED AUG. 15, 1906.

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EDWARD A. BEAUMONT, J R., AND GEORGE W. GARMON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CH ECK-CONTROLLED APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 30, 1907.

Application filed Tune 14, 1905. Renewed August 15 1906. Serial No. 330.645.

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Be it known that we, ED\VARD A. BEAU- MONT, Jr., and GEORG W. GARMON, citizens of the United States, and residents of the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsyl- Vania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Check-Controlled Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in checkcontrolled apparatus, and the objects of our invention are, first, to furnish in a check controlled apparatus an improved means for mutiiating a bogus coin or check, the said mutilation resulting in an inoperative action of the apparatus; second, to furnish in connection with such an apparatus a positive and simple means for ejecting from the coin carriers a mutilated check or any other obstruction which could not fall out of them by gravity; third, to furnish in connection with such an apparatus an improved signal to indicate to the operator at the central station the value of the coin that has been placed in the machine.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, and in which similar letters of reference indicate similar parts throughout the several views: Figure 1, is a perspective view of the coin carriers of our invention showing means for expelling therefrom any obstruction; Fig. 2, a front elevation of the coin carriers, the lever for actuating the same, the means for mutilating spurious checks, etc. Fig. 3, a section of Fig. 2 on line 33, part of the side of the case being broken away to show inner side elevation of gong striking mechanism; Fig. 4, a view similar to Fig. 3 except that the coin carrier has been moved so as to bring a coin carried by one of its arms into engagement with the lever that actuates the gong striking mechanism Fig. 5, a front elevation of knife for mutilating a spurious coin or check; Fig. 6, a top plan view of Fig. 5; Fig. 7, a front elevation of the gong striking mechanism; Fig. 8, a front elevation of lever and pawls for actuating coin carriers; 9, a front elevation of cam or shaft of coin carriers and of pawl for actuating same; Fig. 10, a similar view of ratchet wheel and pawl for .preventing reverse movement of coin carriers. g In carrying out our inventlon We prefer to carry upon a central shaft a several com lete and independent sets of coin carriers in the drawings four sets of carriers are shown arranged in a cruciform manner. As shown, each set of carriers consists of three parts, one for five-cent pieces, another for ten-cent pieces and the third for twenty-five cent pieces; it will be understood, however, that we do not desire to limit ourselves to any particular number of carriers or to carriers for coins of any particular denom nation.

Upon the shaft (t, outside the case 0, is a lever (Z which carries a pawl c which is adapted to engage with a notched diskf which is fast to shaft a, the lever itself being loose on shaft a. The diskf has as many notches as there are sets of carriers carried by shaft a, in the present case four. The normal position of lever (Z is as shown in full lines in Fig. 8, and in this position one of the sets of carriers b are opposite the coin chutes g in the case a as shown .in Fig. 3. After a coin is placed in the coin chute g and passes there from, by gravity, to its carrier, the lever (Z is moved over to the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 8, during which movement the pawl e carries around the disk)" which is fast to the shaft a which carries the coin carriers; this movement carries the carrier 1) which holds the coin past the operative parts of the machine, to be presently described, and the coin falls by gravity to the coin receptacle in the case 0. A stop h limits the throw of the lever (Z. Upon the completion of its oper ative throw the lever d is released and a spring i returns it to its first position.

During the forward movement of the lever (Z, or until the lever has been thrown forward its full stroke, a reverse movement of the lever (Z is prevented by a ratchet wheel and a pawl Zr, the former fast to the casing c and the latter carried by the pivot which carries pawl 0.. During the forward, or operative, movement of lever (Z, the pawl k is in engagement with ratchet but as soon as the lever reaches the end of its stroke and commences to return the pawl e rides up to the periphery of diskf and a pin Z carried by this pawl engages and lifts the pawl Z: clear of the teeth of ratchet until, at the completion. of the backward stroke of the lever, the pawl 0 falls into a notch in disk when the pawl lc is again in engagement with the teeth of ratchet preventing during this engagement, any backwardimovement of lever d. In order that the pawl k may be lifted from ratchet j at the completion of the forward movement of lever d the ratchet j has one or more teeth removed at a point m at which point the tooth on the pawl will be when the lever 61 is moved completely forward, this arrangement permitting a sufficient reverse movement of the pawl to permitit to be raised by the movement of pawl e and pin Z when the lever (Z is released.

By the arrangement above described it will be observed that each complete movement of the lever d is accompanied by a movement of the carriers b which brings each set of the carriers successively opposite the coin chutes c in the case 0.

89, Fig. 7, indicate a pawl and ratchet which prevent at all times a reverse movement of the shaft a and of the coin carriers carried by this shaft.

If a good coin be placed in one of the carriers and the handle (1 operated the movement of the carrier will first bring the coin into engagement with a trigger a which is pivotally carried upon a rod 0. The engagement of the coin with the inner side of the trigger it will cause the trigger to rock upon rod'o and its outer side will engage and lift a catch 10, which is pivotally carried by the sides of the case, and which is normally held in a depressed position by a spring 1". After passing the trigger a the coin comes in contact with knife 8 but the catch p having been lifted by the trigger the knife yields and the coin passes to an arm t which is secured to a rod a pivotally carried by the sides of case 0. A spring 1) retains the arm tin a normally elevated position. I/Vhen the revolution of the coin carrier brings the coin into engagement with the arm t, this arm is depressed turning the shaft "or rod u. i As soon as the coin is moved past the arm the spring o returns the arm to its first position and in so doing actuates a clock mechanism 1, of any suitable construction, which causes a hammer 2 to strike a gong 3.

One arm it acts for all the corresponding coin carriers of each set of carriers, each corresponding set of carriers having their own arm, all of these arms being fast to the common shaft u. The several arms are all inclined at different angles so that coins of different denominations will cause a greater or less rotation of the shaft a, which will cause the gong to be sounded once, twice, three times, &c. according to the rotation.

If a disk of soft metal or of card board be used instead of a good coin the rotation of the carriers will first bring it into contact with the trigger it the face of which is knife edged, this knife edge will nick the disk if it be of soft metal or paper, (but will not seriously harm a good coin,) which will not offer suflicient resistance to trip the trigger to release the stop 19. The disk will be next carried past the knife 8, which owing to the stop p being unreleased will not yield, which will cut a slit in it sufficiently large to permit it to pass without engaging the alarm ringing arm 15, hence the soft metal or paper disk will pass without notifying the operator at central station and no connection will be made.

One serious objection to machines of this class has been that the coin carriers are often clogged by pieces of wood, paper &c. inserted by persons in an effort to use the machine in an unauthorized manner. These ob- 'structions not only cause an initial loss of revenue but they frequently prevent the use of the machine until it has been opened and they manually removed. In order to over come this objection we furnish an automatic arrangement for positively cleaning the carriers which is as follows. Upon the case 0, preferably at each side, we secure slotted cams 5 in the slots of which rest the ends of rods 6 which are furnished with cleaners 7 which enter the coin carriers 5. The slotted cams 5 are so arranged that after the carriers have passed away from the alarm actuating arm 25 a further rotary movement of the carriers, which carry around with them cleaners 7, will result in the cleaners being moved outward of the carriers pushing before them any obstructing pieces which are thereby eX- pelled. Before the carriers have reached the coin chutes g the cleaners have been returned to their positions at the inner ends of the carriers. The several positions of the carriers and cleaners are fully shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

The details of the device for cleaning the coin carriers can be materially changed without departing from the spirit of our invention, which, broadly speaking, consists of any means for sweeping the rotary coin carrier or carriers clear of obstructions during each of their revolutions.

The means for mutilating a paper, tin, lead or other disk or slug herein shown and described will form the subject of a separate application for patent in conformity with the classification rules of the Patent Office.

Having thus described our invention we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent;

1. In a check controlled apparatus, in combination, a shaft, a series of sets of coin carriers carried by said shaft, means for intermittently rotating said shaft and carriers in one direction, a second shaft, separate arms, one for each set of coin carriers, carried by said second shaft, said arms extending toward said first shaft and adapted each to be engaged and rocked by a coin carried in any one of the carriers of its corresponding set of coin carriers, said arms being so arranged in relation to said second shaft that a movement of any arm by a coin results in a greater or less rotation of said shaft than the movement of any other arm by a coin, and an alarm adapted to be operated by said shaft and to be sounded differently by differences in its rotation.

2. In a check controlled apparatus, in combination, a shaft, a series of sets of coin carriers carried by said shaft, means for in termittently rotating said shaft and carriers in one direction, a series of arms, one for each corresponding one of each set of coin carriers, carried upon a second shaft, said arms extending toward said first shalt and adapted each to be engaged and. rocked by a coin carried in any one of the carriers of its corresponding set of coin carriers, said arms being so arranged in relation to said second shaft that a movement of any one of them by a coin in its carrier will cause a greater or less rotation of said second shaft than will be caused by the movement of any other of the arms by its corresponding coin and carrier, said second shaft, means for returning said second shaft and the arms carried thereby to their first position after having been operated by a coin and its carrier, and an alarm adapted to be sounded one or more times as may be dictated by the degree that said second shaft has been turned.

3. The combination in a check controlled apparatus of a set of grooved coin carriers carried by a central shaft, said shaft, means for intermittently rotating said shaft and carriers, cleaners carried by the coin grooves in said carriers, and means for reciprocating said cleaners from end to end of said coin grooves during each revolution of said shaft and carriers.

4. The combination in a check-controlled apparatus, of a multiplicity of sets of coin carriers carried by a shaft, means for intermittently rotating said shaft and carriers, stationary grooved cams at opposite ends of said shaft, rods passing across the faces of each set of carriers the ends of said rods passing into the grooves in said cams, and clean ers carried by said rods and entering said carriers.

EDWVARD A. BEAUMONT, J R. GEORGE V. GARMON.

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GEORGE XV. SELTZER, CHAnLEs A. BUTTER. 

